New Profession, Old Order
Subtitle: Engineers and German Society, 18151914
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 26, 1990
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9780521371988
Subjects: European history: c 1750 to c 1900; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; History: World; Engineering (General); Sociology; Germany; Social aspects; Europe - General; General; Engineering--Social aspects--Germany--History; History / Europe / General; Engineering; History
First sentence: Reflecting on a century of technological development in German mechanical engineering, the historian Conrad Matschoss noted in 1908 that the "extraordinary progress of the last few decades" contrasted favorably with conditions during the greater part of the nineteenth century.